Rogers v. State

Summary

The court affirmed Rogers’s felony-murder conviction, holding that the evidence was sufficient for a rational jury to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Rogers’s recorded admission that he intentionally fired the shot constituted direct evidence, and the jury was entitled to reject his contrary trial testimony and accident defense. The court also held that, even assuming the admission of testimony about Rogers’s motive was error, Rogers failed to establish plain error because the testimony was cumulative and unlikely to have affected the verdict.